By Piero Torriti
Simone Martini (c. 1284 – 1344) was once an Italian painter born in Siena. He used to be an enormous determine within the improvement of early Italian portray and tremendously inspired the improvement of the overseas Gothic variety. it truly is inspiration that Martini used to be a scholar of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the top Sienese painter of his time. in line with overdue Renaissance artwork biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was once as a substitute a scholar of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to color on the outdated St. Peters Basilica, Giotto additionally executing a mosaic there. Martinis brother-in-law was once the artist Lippo Memmi. little or no documentation of Simones lifestyles survives, and lots of attributions are debated through paintings historians.
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